Daylight Savings Time

A couple days ago, all of us got to turn our clocks back one hour because of daylight savings time. (Or is it, because daylight savings time ended? how does this work anyways?) It's one of those things that everybody loves and nobody would ever complain about. Whenever someone finds out they get to turn back an hour on a Saturday night in October, usually a wide grin comes over their face and they are like "sweet, more sleep for me tonight."

As well they should, because you simply can't beat being able to gain an hour for no good reason. Actually, I hear the reason is because some gangsta farmers (or should I say farmahzz) bullied the government into shifting the official time for a few months of the year. But whatever the reason, I like it.

Of course, it's gonna suck in spring when we gotta "spring forward" and lose that hour right back. Most of us don't think about that until the time comes and when it does, you usually see a lot of people conveniently "forget," sleep that hour anyways, and be late to class, work, or watching Jerry Springer. That's how I am.

But this year, I am thinking of the future, months ahead, when I am gonna be robbed of a precious hour of beautyrest. So, I am thinking, we should make some drastic changes to the country to maximize the amount of wide grins and minimize the trashy daytime TV show missage.

Since everyone loves turning their clock back, and hates turning it forward, I would like to propose a plan that will eliminate the latter while multiplying the former. The math or logic minded readers out there are probably already saying, that's impossible, you can't gain an hour of time without giving it back!

Ah, but you can. See, I think every other week of the year, we should turn our clocks back one hour. That means, after a year, we will have turned our clocks back 26 times, having gained about 26 hours of sleep in the process (not to mention the many smiles that go along with such a benefit). Of course, the catch is that we lose about 1 day each year, and that we have wacked out schedules all the time (waking up when the sun goes down in the summer, for example), but that's a small price to pay. How many of us really are gonna miss that one day out of the year anyways?

Yeah, I know that 26 hours a year means that we lose more than one day a year, so for the sake of order, we would probably have to have a "leap day" every 12 years to account for this. Who cares.

Seriously, it would work. I am thinking of running for office using such a platform to build my campaign on. Since it doesn't really save daylight anymore, I guess it would have to be called "sleep savings time" or something. But I'm sure a lot of people would vote for me if it meant more sleep for them...